What Happened With Arkansas Company Earnings in 2015? ..... Exclusive of Giant Wal-Mart, They Are Down 155% From 2014 ..... When Earnings Decline Like This, Employees Eventually Get Laid Off and New Hiring Freezes Up ..... Employees of Arkansas Businesses and Younger Citizens Should Rise Up and Vote En Masse in the March 1, 2016 SEC Presidential Primary For Bernie Sanders' Political Revolution

From both the superb Google Finance website and US Company SEC filings, below here are the reported US GAAP Real Earnings (Losses) From Continuing Operations for the most recently reported 9 Months Ended September or October 2015 and 2014 for each of  the 14 Arkansas HQed Companies with current stock market capitalizations of more than $100 mil and with December or January Year Ends:

				Nine	Nine
				Months	Months
				2015	2014
				Net	Net	Increase	Increase
Arkansas Largest Companies			Most	Income	Income	(Decrease)	(Decrease)
Market Cap $100 mil or More	City	State	Recent	(Loss)	(Loss)	Amount	%
With December or JanuaryYear Ends	HQs	HQs	FYE	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
Wal-Mart	Bentonville	AR	Jan 15	10,332	11,626	(1,294)	-11%
All But Wal-Mart
Murphy Oil Corp	El Dorado	AR	Dec 14	(1,673)	583	(2,256)
Windstream Holdings Inc	Little Rock	AR	Dec 14	(113)	38	(151)
Murphy USA Inc	El Dorado	AR	Dec 14	108	129	(21)
Dillard's Inc	Little Rock	AR	Jan 15	185	201	(16)
Deltic Timber Corp	El Dorado	AR	Dec 14	3	16	(13)
Bear State Financial Inc	Little Rock	AR	Dec 14	8	19	(11)
USA Truck	Van Buren	AR	Dec 14	7	3	4
P.A.M. Transportation Services Inc	Tontitown	AR	Dec 14	18	11	7
ArcBest Corp	Fort Smith	AR	Dec 14	40	32	8
Home Bancshares Inc	Conway	AR	Dec 14	101	83	18
Simmons First National Corp	Pine Bluff	AR	Dec 14	51	23	28
J B Hunt Transport Services	Lowell	AR	Dec 14	310	264	46
Bank of the Ozarks	Little Rock	AR	Dec 14	131	84	47
Total all 13 But Wal-Mart				(824)	1,486	(2,310)	-155%
Total all 14				9,508	13,112	(3,604)	-27%